Key COTS Building Blocks for Next Generation Radar and Electronic Warfare Waveform Creation

Fueled by the global adoption and application of AESA technology, the science of Electronic Warfare is rapidly evolving. As an engineer who needs to design test systems to emulate the latest threats you are challenged to do this not only with COTS hardware, but it must be able to generate a diverse set of threats and EW techniques – ranging from legacy deployed radars to the most advanced High Resolution SAR or Moving Target Indicator radars.

Cost and time constraints makes it increasingly difficult to design a new test system for every program. Of course we all know that a versatile COTS based hardware platform strategy is often what is requested, however the advanced nature of the signals required make it an almost impossible goal.